Word: michelet
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...Algiers, Moslem gunmen shot dead a taxi driver known to be an S.A.O. leader. Within 15 minutes, bands of S.A.O. killers appeared at populous street corners and gunned down 35 Moslem passersby. Three other S.A.O. gunmen last week casually strolled the length of fashionable Rue Michelet shooting all Moslems in their path. While Europeans watched approvingly, twelve Moslems died and nine were wounded. Among the victims: two crippled beggars, one of them 83 years...
...Algiers, European gunmen spread chaos, killing at least 20 anti-S.A.O. commandos of De Gaulle's government. The police received emergency calls reporting murders, arson or bombing every quarter of an hour until curfew. Dead, dying or wounded men lay every 500 yards along the Rue Michelet...
...change. The square white houses still climb on each other's shoulders up to the wooded heights. In the Moslem quarter, the casbah's tunneled alleys are filled with turbaned men and neat-stepping donkeys burdened with panniers. Beneath the leafy shade of the Forum and along the Rue Michelet in the European district stroll some of the loveliest girls in the world, giggling and gossiping as if they were not a step away from a daily round of slaughter...
Wailing Siren. At week's end Algeria still seemed a smiling white city lying between a blue sea and distant snowcapped mountains. In the nightclubs along the Rue Michelet, couples danced until the midnight curfew, although traveling strippers have taken Algeria off their itineraries. At a movie house on the Rue d'lsly. Moslems and Europeans queued up to see Spartacus; the line moved slowly not because of a lack of seats, but because each moviegoer was frisked for gun, knife or bomb before admittance. At sidewalk cafes, no one turned at the familiar wailing siren of an ambulance racing...
...telling the story of the French Revolution in terms of eyewitness stories culled from 50,000 items in the national archives. The book gives all the blooming, buzzing confusion of a new world being created but not yet comprehended or tidied up by the hindsight or partisanship of a Michelet, Taine or Carlyle...